Cracking eight part series. The action moves to Spain and Morocco where Dushane needs to reset his supply chain, finds the Spanish volatile and the Moroccans suffering from an internal leak.
Now out of prison, Jamie (Micheal Ward) rejoins the operation, ends up working with Moroccans - great scenes here with him and young beach-dwelling boy who wants to get to Spain to see his sister - and sounds out a deal on his own with the Spanish contact.
Jaq remains our favourite character. She is attacked by some white thugs - the moment she exacts her revenge punishment on one is one of those moments of gratuitous violence that you cheer along with.
In a mad twist in episode beginning with 'Likkle Favour', Sully gets sucked into a drug deal gone wrong with his niece Pebbles (Erin Kellyman). He ends up being kidnapped and messed up by a Peckham gang. Dushane and the gang bloodily secure his release in one of those hugely exciting set pieces. It's the tension of this storyline that kept us watching six 50 minute episodes back-to-back.
Now clearly in debt to Dushane, Sully accompanies Jamie to Spain and in a brilliant scene with a gun taped to the bottom of a biscuit tin, wipes out the crazy Spaniard. But he's realised Jamie was planning to go solo.
Jaq's pregnant sister Lauryn (Saffron Hocking) turns up, pursued by her psycho husband Howard Charles (who was reminding us of Genna in Gomorrah a bit), his even worse sister Ava Brennan and their accomplice (in life rapper) Trigga. Whilst Lauryn manages to deal with the husband situation, we were both most disappointed that the sister didn't also get wiped out - in fact imagined a scene when they're both back in safe Liverpool and then they get blown up or summink.
And 14 year old Ats has been murdered and the hunt for his killers is on... And it inexorably links back to Jamie, like (and not the first time I've had this thought in connection with this show) a Shakespearean tragedy.
Brian Eno's still writing the incidental music. Stuart Bentley, Adam Scarth alternate as DPs. Editing, direction, writing all top notch.
We actually prefer this to the similar Gomorrah because you actually care about the characters, who have lives outside of drug dealing, and it touches on important issues like urban regeneration and police brutality.
We really should have watched the whole lot from the beginning like the sensible one in this relationship had suggested.
Hackney is sort of squeezed between Islington and the City.
Had to look up 'Buki' = strange or weird. Liked - no loved - the song that ends episode 8 'Potter Payper' from Gansteritus (feat Tiggs da Author).
In a bit.
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